skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, for one, you just glossed over my point. Namely, no otherwise legitimate corporation has ever killed a whistleblower.

You claimed no corporation had killed a whistleblower in 100 years. I gave an example of a corporation killing a whistleblower from the past 5 years. I don't know how I could have possibly addressed that point more clearly.

You subsequently made a "no true Scotsman" argument that this example of a corporation killing a whistleblower doesn't count, I argued the opposite. Even if we ignored this example, that would not make the statement "no otherwise legitimate corporation has ever killed a whistleblower" true. I'm not going to go through the effort of producing more evidence when what I have already presented proves my point, but that does not mean the example I provided was the only instance of such an occurrence.

> Secondly, this tree-cutting service was run by two people who were caught. Boeing could not possibly pull of a murder-for-hire conspiracy without leaking. They can't pull off a skip-a-few-bolts-to-save-money conspiracy without leaking.

So your argument is that they couldn't have committed a crime since they have been caught conspiring to commit too many crimes already? Absurd. For starters, just because they haven't been caught yet doesn't mean they won't be later. Then it does not stand to reason that a massive conspiracy to bypass safety regulations involving countless employees and multiple facilities is easier to keep secret than the clandestine actions of a small number of people or even perhaps a single person.

> And again, I ask what would they possibly be trying to accomplish by murdering people who's story is already told? What in the absolute world would they get out of murdering someone from a supplier while half the world thinks they just murdered someone else? They would be committing corporate suicide over cases they would probably be able to settle out of.

Again, multiple people at Boeing are facing criminal prosecution based primarily on the testimony of this whistleblower and others like him. If whistleblowers don't testify, they don't go to jail. The corporation would be able to settle, but the specific execs involved would not.

Why would anyone commit murder if they know they could be caught? And yet, murders occur, and murderers get caught. Hell, why would an aircraft company commit a skip-a-few-bolts-to-save-money plot if they could be caught? Obviously they take the risk that they can get away with it. Sure two whistleblowers dead in two months looks sketchy, but not one person has actually been accused of anything. Even if 5 more whistleblowers died in the next 24 hours, all found with gunshots to the back of the head, it wouldn't on its own be enough evidence to finger any particular person for the crime. And even if someone were caught, that doesn't necessarily mean every co-conspirator would be. If faced with a choice between guaranteed jail time for a crime someone is about to testify you committed versus a non-zero chance of getting away scot-free, many people would choose the latter.
Thank you for the heads up, I will have to do more cross browser testing and apply the fixes. I appreciate you pasting the error as well.

edit: I went ahead and applied a fix
> "breaking X boards" means stacking the boards directly on top of each other

That's just your interpretation.

If a man breaks /n/ boards which were not pre-cut, then he broke /n/ boards.
Got noösphere vibes, not surprising for Russia
> Our hypothesis is that, across a wide range of harmful prompts, there is a single intermediate feature which is instrumental in the model’s refusal.

AI learned to successfully recognize puritanism.
> Especially "the enterprise", where software is seen as a cost center so the less of it the better.

Less is more? Oh you are painting such a rosy picture of enterprise IT.
Canadian Police Arrest 3 in Slaying of Sikh Leader
"take a lot of these cost claims with a giant pinch of salt"

That was funny.
"What is this... 'cash'? Is that some sort of new crypto I haven't heard about?" - DoorDash devs, maybe.
Thank you for the feedback, and yes that helps to know which browser you experienced it in! I have some cross-browser fixing to do
"Comfortable" is a relative value.
You're correct, and I just tested it... seems that about half of Mullvad IP's are in fact blocked if you're logged out. Good catch.
For anyone who is interested in Russia’s growing influence in West Africa and the sub-Sahara region, with the influx of the Wagner Group and the loss of control by France and other western powers, I found this video to be particularly useful: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fiD24uEvY1U
Think about it. For many users, they're in these chairs 12+ hours a day. They're not cars that get driven for an hour a two a day.
A year or two ago I moved my outdated Proxmox server over to TrueNAS Core because I was getting more into the BSDs and liked the idea of "less controversial" ZFS support.

Sadly it did feel clunkier in many ways (my Unifi Jail sometimes fails with a vague error message, CPU temp sensors are inaccurate, SMB share auth is a pain), although stability has been rock solid.

I'll be moving back to Proxmox when I rebuild and upgrade disks. It's a shame that a company that was at the forefront of BSD development has decided to move away from it.
i've definitely seen people breaking multiple boards by hand and foot without spacers or scoring the wood, repeatedly, up close, over years. i've done single-board break demos myself. the one piece of 'fakery' they did use was that they broke the wood parallel to its grain, not across the grain, and the individual boards were only ever "one inch" thick (which means less than one inch in the usa due to reasons), even if there was a stack of eight of them

the force required to break a beam is proportional to the square of its thickness, so breaking one two-inch board requires the same force as a stack of four one-inch boards
i definitely get this sentiment, but as someone who's used similar apps for other stuff, i prefer knowing that people who are viewing my profile at least had some email verification

yes anyone can use a throwaway email, maybe it's all irrational, but i know from user interviews i'm not the only one who feels that way

same thing for app vs web. there's at least a feeling that scammers/hackers/creeps on the other side of the world have less access to my personal info. again maybe it's fake, but the perception is there. (otherwise generally i would prefer web > app 100 times out of 100)
Vulture capitalism - def. (noun): A strategy applied to a company or multiple companies in a market category whereby profits are maximally extracted without regard to long-term sustainability of customer relationships, brand reputation, or company viability.

Not saying it's not a viable possible strategy for the investor, but that it's perhaps a suboptimal strategy if greater net profits were desired long-term.
> This is a strange generalization to make.

I get it, but 100% of Mac users I've helped in my 25 years of professional computing had messy desktops. That's dozens (maybe close to 100) of Mac users. Not scientific, not conclusive, but it's exactly 100% with no exceptions. This includes fellow IT professionals and college acquaintances. The most recent experience being two days ago, where I assisted a Mac user in changing email settings. It's also very common for these Mac users to not understand file/folder structure. I often guide them to download a file/app, and once downloaded they generally have no idea where it went unless its... on their desktop! Same for "open" applications. For PC user's I'd say it's in the 10-20% range, low enough to be unremarkable.
They originally intended to shoot in Japan but couldn’t because of Covid. I thought the foliage and coastline were reasonably close to parts of Japan’s (I’ve been both there and to the Pacific NW).

I experienced what you’re describing when Power of the Dog tried to pass New Zealand off as Montana though.
In the US :-p
Thank you! Yes, I would like to make it responsive in the future
I was a karate practitioner and instructor in my youth. Board breaking is really, really easy. The key is the boards designed for breaking are cut in their weakest orientation. Wood is incredibly strong going with the fibers, even a pine board is very hard to break long ways using a sledge hammer. However, if it's cut on its short axis, it's incredibly easy to break. Most people, even children don't need any guidance beyond, "punch through the board" to be successful. Breaking boards is more mental than physical. If a student is struggling or a novice, the person holding the board can hold their hands a little wider to make it easier to break.

Concrete is more difficult, but there's still a trick to it. The blocks you use for breaking have a bit of flex to them, but are also extremely brittle. So just getting it to flex just a small amount will cause them to break in half. That's also why you place spacers between stacks of bricks or wood. You're leveraging the flex of the material to break it, and stacking them without spacers makes too rigid to break.

In short, this stuff is 90% magic trick.
And I just don't think it's needed.

You are almost certainly not charging from 0->100%. It's probably more like 10%->90% which gives you 32kW to charge. We currently have 350kW chargers on the market, they'd do that in ~6 minutes.

At some point trying to get 2 minutes vs 6 minutes is just silly nit picking.
Thanks for trying it, I'll plan on making it mobile-friendly in the future
Social democracy
This is a scientific study. Whether a particular chemical alleviates the experience of depression symptoms is an empirical question, and if the evidence indicates that it does, then this is relevant and useful information.

I'm not sure this is right audience for promoting the medieval mentality of deference to political/ideological authority as being more important than dissemination of valid scientific data.
(anonymous coward - does anyone else remember slashdot heyday?)

I so agree with this. I'm tasked with creating "AI flow" for our product. Guess what? I'm cobbling together pieces from Gemini, GPT, sprinkling some transformations and trying my best to keep the price down because OMG these things are expensive.

But am I creating something new? Am I even creating something useful? I don't think so. It's becoming table-stakes but I have no idea who's going to use this. It's so inconvenient, clunky and is even the low probability it'll respond with hallucinations or misinterpret causes me to shy away from it personally.

For my personal life? sure. I wouldn't count on it but it's a great shortcut. For work? I wouldn't trust what that thing says without verifying. Nor would I let it perform actions for me without making sure of what it's about to do.
The national myth of Germany actually obscures one of the biggest successful efforts in "restructuring" the Allies engaged in: the complete elimination of Prussia.

Not only were parts of Eastern Prussia reassigned to other countries but also Prussian provinces within Germany were dissolved and remodeled into the German Bundesländer. Today "Prussia" as a cohesive identity largely only exists as something for Bavarians to differentiate themselves from. Well into WW1 German national identity was defined more by Prussia than anything else but the Allies completely eliminated it. Denazification was largely a farce and appeals by influential people were mostly rubberstamped but Deprussification is the secret success story.
You can do that with ScreenRun (which I developed) https://screenrun.app/
When I last looked it was free for businesses of 1 person, no Enterprise licence required. But you would still have to pay for sync if needed.
They can have an impact, just as not punching someone in the face can have a positive impact on them. I just wouldn't call it a subsidy when you're not taking someone's money.
We frequently hear about "private equity" doing something sociopathic.

We sometimes don't even hear the names of the companies, just "private equity".

Do we need to systematically trace and publish which individuals and institutions benefit from the nasty companies?
Out of curiosity, if it is known that the nth bit is set, don't I also have the same risk but in (n-1) bits? Genuinely curious here.

Edit: Ah, nevermind, I see now why I don't have that issue. It's because I can't easily iterate the primes in that domain even though I can iterate the reduced number of bits. Thanks!
Surely. It'd be hard to get to 4 hours otherwise.
Drivers usually just drop off orders at the door, per request by the customer. Requesting otherwise would probably deprioritize your delivery and cost the driver money because they have to wait, causing other orders to be delivered later.

Is there a reason why Door Dash removed the tipping feature from their site?
Also consider what they say in the last paragraph though:

> I’m not convinced that making interfaces so simple and “intuitive” that anyone can truly learn them on their own is even possible, maybe not even desirable since it encourages more of that kind of rugged individualism in computing

If your software gets the users the training they need, they might be much happier with it and recommend it to colleagues in the field or request it at a future workplace. They'll also know who to ask because they've made contact with experts already

A competing product where everything is made obvious, but also dumbed down and cumbersome in some ways because you are always treated like a beginner, may end up losing out if the training-required one gets their market placement right
So is ZBrush, which is why its the industry standard for sculpting for VFX and games.

You still have to get decent topology out of the modelling package, and marching cubes aren't going to give you that. If you have to retopologize your sculpted model by hand to make it viable for use in a rendering pipeline you might as well have just started with good topology in the first place and save yourself the time.
I did martial arts for years and often helped out with the classes as an adult. We used to buy the cheapest concrete brick/paver we could get for breaking. Something similar to this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/16-in-x-8-in-x-1-75-in-Pewter-Co...

There is a lot of variance in bricks. And honestly a lot of the cheap ones would break if you dropped them, or loading and loading them in the van...

Not to mention people would accuse us of baking them, or freezing them, leaving them outside for months or years, all kinds of stuff. But honestly we would buy a bunch of them from the home improvement store on the way to the demo at the mall or a school. You'd be surprised at how easily you can break one with the simple tap of a claw hammer.

It's just physics. The longer the brick, the easier it will break. Some demo rocks are much longer. The trick is to hit it fast, use the smallest impact point you can, and follow through. If you don't follow through you won't even be able to break a pine board. Theres some kind of psychological thing prevent most people from punching through a target, whether it's a brick, punching bag, or a board.

Drywall, however, is an exception to this rule.
All of these sponsorships started long before Unity's ad product was launched...

And Unity's ad network is in competition with several of these companies, most notably Apple and Google.
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Here's an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220217012159/https://www.wired...
Great. The whole idea of tipping is so ridiculous. Like, “I paid you for your service but here’s 20% more just because for unwritten rules I’m supposed to pay this.”
Sure, sure but can it still drum when you turn it completely upside down like Tommy Lee?
Ya you'll be able to do things like:

SELECT
rowid,
distance
FROM vec_items
WHERE rowid IN (SELECT rowid FROM ...)
AND title_embeddings MATCH ?
ORDER BY distance
LIMIT 10

^ This would do a KNN style query, k=10, but only include results where the item's rowid is included in the (...) subquery. This is a half-measure for metadata filtering, by pre-filtering which items should be considered in the KNN search.

It's currently a bit slow, and not the best solution. Eventually there will be support for metadata column in vec0 tables, which with trickery should be much faster, but isn't planned for v0.1.0.
PE is specifically referring to companies not listed on stock exchanges that take money from investors. I agree that we do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater here, but there is probably merit to limiting the activity of PE funds with lots of investors or lots of money. PE often used as a scheme of raising money and conducting business in a way to avoid the scrutiny of a publicly traded company.
It has everything to do with it. I'm in the Midwest. Know who buys into abortion bans, homophobia and the like around here? People who would have had a decent job 50 years ago before we shipped those off, but now get stuck in their small town 120 miles from the nearest city of note.
What's funny is that the illustration at the start of the article shows exactly the kind of plank you would not be able to break this way.
The problem isn't whether or not you're a software engineer. The problem is finding balance. I started out as a mechanical engineer and eventually found my way to a software job that pays triple what I made as a ME and rarely requires me to work more than 35hrs/wk. That gives me plenty of money and time to build robots and make furniture as hobbies. Every once in a while I daydream that I'd rather be a chef, my other major hobby, but then I talk to chefs and they tell me either 1) fuck off with that shit 2) I will definitely be happier remaining in software. We as an industry are still insanely pampered and spoiled, even if our jobs are slightly less cushy than they were in 2021.
I wish I could be so lucky. In recent years, every job I've worked for has reached a point where I had to endure 4 hours of meetings per day before we could even begin to get work done (if we were lucky)

The departments where people were casually putting in 4 hours per day mostly got axed during COVID and again during the 2024 recessions. There was a period of time where a lot of teams accumulated a lot of people so they could spread the work thin. Eventually management started catching on and put an end to that.
That's 20% less, not "much less".
Yeah, but we are pumping oil anyways and there's all the money in the world against stopping it.

If we convert some of that pumped oil into a plastic that won't be burned but landfilled then we prevented some release of CO2.

If we use the plastic for packaging (instead of glass or metal) we saved energy (which translates today to CO2) and we saved fuel by transporting lighter packaging.

Plastic is pretty much the best thing that happened to humanity in relation to CO2 emissions.

Too bad we want to get rid of it because we find it unsightly, because we fail to properly sequester it at its end of life.
True. I think people just over-estimate the cost of an ICE drivetrain. Yes, they have thousands of parts. But they don't cost anything to build. It's Japan's whole thing. You can get an entire Prius long block engine in a crate delivered for $2k. This is about half the cost of 1 headlight assembly from a Model S. Cost is not about complexity, it is about scale.
> I think it would be absolutely destructive to just slap a feel-good-patch on every kid's arm

Is the argument here that making pain medication more accessible inevitably leads to misuse? I suppose Tylenol would be problematic then.

Perhaps it’s a hypothetical high potency that is the concern? Then fentanyl is the concern here.

But what if fentanyl but no side effects? Is that world worse or better?
> The original had more charismatic characters and was more about culture than gore and action.

I get the feeling we didn't watch the same show. The clash of culture was a core theme for the new show. It meditated on the differences in every episode.
Sigh. I dealt with NSM a few years ago to get a new manual wheelchair. The tech who fitted me for it, and delivered it, was great, but very obviously always in a rush. The chair itself was not made to spec, so it was just not useable for me as-is. After many months of trying (and failing) to get NSM to help me mod it and get it as close to spec as possible, I gave up and just continued using my old chair.

But even more frustrating than that? NSM continued sending me phony bills for parts that I did not order. I just trashed them until it went to collections. (Fortunately, the collection agency they use is even more incompetent than they are, and I've been able to put them off with standard anti-collections form letters.)

I figured I'd go with Numotion when insurance is ready to re-up me for a new chair, but reading this article, it doesn't seem that would be any better.
It's built on JAX, not vanilla Python.

The metric being optimized is not just performance, but also the ability to build reasonably performant workflows with arbitrary differentiable (i.e., ML) inputs and outputs.
Security first unless revenue is first which it always is
In articles like this, there's recurring themes:

1) However much C is stored by protecting forests / planting trees, is peanuts compared to humanity's GHG emissions.

Read: phasing out fossil fuels is the #1 task that we should focus on, as it has the biggest effect - by far. Planting trees etc helps, but it's not what will get us where we need to be.

2) Re-forestation is hard. Saplings die, growing trees takes time, and they may fall victim to drought/forest fires later on. Correspondence between [trees saved/planted] and [carbon credits] is... well, not 1:1. To put it mild.

3) Carbon capture is mostly a fantasy. Existing plants capture a minute fraction of human-emitted C at high cost, and this won't change for the foreseeable future.

Maybe CC will work at scale, some day. And for that reason, exploring the tech is worthwhile. But as it is, it's not a 'solution' in any way, shape or form. A different but similar story goes for geo-engineering.

4) We're racing past 1.5°C warming, no matter what. We'll probably run past 2°C warming, too. 2.5°? 3°? Even more? Don't rule it out! Prepare.
Even if so, isn't that the entire point of this server he is protecting?